Full-On Rock Band Makes Jamming Follow-Up to Guitar Hero (Wired)

Night has fallen in West Hollywood, and it's the rocking hour at the Troubadour, the legendary club that helped launch the careers of Pearl Jam and Guns N' Roses. A band on the tiny stage is crunching out a surprisingly faithful rendition of the Hives' "Main Offender." It's the first night of E3, the yearly trade show for the videogame industry, and this concert is crawling with game developers, executives, journalists, and retailers.

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Say cheese: Sony technology focuses on smiles (Reuters)

If a picture's worth a thousand words, then how much is a smiling photo worth? About 40,000 yen ($350), based on Sony's new "smile shutter" cameras.

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Prince to "reclaim the Internet" by suing YouTube, eBay, Pirate Bay (ars technica)

Prince is planning to make some doves cry over at YouTube headquarters. The symbol-loving singer has announced that he wants to go after the video-sharing site, along with eBay and the Pirate Bay, for hosting unauthorized versions of his music and merchandise.

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Test drive: ajaxWindows leaves nasty streaks (ars technica)

Former Linspire CEO Michael Robertson has released a new web-based "operating system" that attempts to simulate the entire desktop computing experience in a web browser. ars technica reviews the application and sees if it foretells a shift in how people interact with computers.

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Desktop Factory begins taking orders for 3D printer (TG Daily)

It kind of sounds like something from a Ray Bradbury novel. Create a three-dimensional figure in the form of a specific image format, and the 125ci printer will create a physical representation of the model before your eyes.

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Running the numbers on Vista (CNET News.com)

Sales of boxed copies of Windows Vista continue to significantly trail those of Windows XP during its early days, according to a soon-to-be-released report.

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